In the article, Thompson had portrayed his impressment towards the effect of
social networking to the academic performance of a teenager particularly in linguistic.
He said that teachers concluded that students essay blossomed in size and complexity
compared to older years. Students are starting to get good in writing essays by
performing an argument which is buttressed by evidence. They began to write essays in
a correct grammatical sentence without the usage of short forms. Well, this indicates
that teenagers have actually increased their ability to gather information, sample
different points and is able to write more fluently. I cannot deny the fact that teenagers
do experience self-learning process trough social networking. In order to deliberate their
ideas to the world, they have to be able to generate a matured idea and convert it into
words by having a vast general knowledge and constructing the right sentence to
ensure the understanding of the readers. Eventually, this leads to an improvement
towards the academic of the youths itself.
Clive Thompson also emphasizes on how social network helps in establishing
connection with friends, family and relatives. Apparently, with fast developing world and
increasing use of internet, global communication has getting much easier. The
complexity of communicating with people from another part of the world is no more, all
because of social media. Teenagers can always acknowledge how things going within
the family and friends. Whether it is a casual tweet or only a photo from those peoples
holiday, its a way of keeping in touch with them. The global character of social network
might also help teenagers to get in touch with the people they have lost contact for
years. Pus, social network can also help teenagers to learn to socialize with their peers.
They can learn more about virtual empathy, how to express empathy and respond
towards it. Teens may apply this element in their daily social life and practice better
communication skills in real life.
Digital uses are not only inventive and beneficial but they are also crucial in
terms of the teenagers social lives and education. In the first aspect, social networking
is a new social skill that is necessary for teenager to get involve in so that they can
blend well with the rest of Xs and Ys generation. Online socializing is the opposite of